Ideas for ILX

Jay, you can kind of do this now, though it's certainly not obvious... If you use the text search, and enter something like:

radiohead AND displayName:"Ned Raggett"

It should work - remember to change to posts (if that's what you're looking for).

ignore lists

http://www.b3tards.com/u/c2d08cf4e23cfbd9a0c0/duck_hunt_dog.gif

― galumphing lummox (bug), Saturday, August 1, 2009 3:48 PM (Yesterday)

Bug, yes I was thinking that would be something I should do.

― Keith, Saturday, August 1, 2009 3:49 PM (Yesterday)

An idea from the missus: could this be made thread-specific? Like, ignore (User X) on this thread but not that thread?

RSS feeds for a specific user's posts would be nice.

and crepey

Surm, 1,209

― Keith, Saturday, August 1, 2009 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh wow thank you for this btw

how hard would it be to have tabbed new answers lists? sort of like metafilter I guess--where I can have one tab with site new answers, one tab with just ilm, one tab with my favorite sub-boards, all on a single page? would be nice if it updated live but I imagine that's a pain.

I haven't read this entire thread but I wish there was a suggest keep function that would operate exactly like suggest ban except in reverse

my biggest complaint with the suggest ban function is that it only gives voice to the people who say 'no', and it only allows you to vote *against* someone and no way to vote *for* them

dude

Like if I'm searching for a post where Ned Raggett mentioned Radiohead

It's a vision.

OK so if you're logged in, then for any threads you have read, if there are subsequent new messages on that thread, the bullet on the new answers page will indicate it - on most stylesheets as an empty bullet, but as different colours on some. Happy for suggestions except penguins as to how it should be indicated though - for now, let me know if it works OK.

Having the Statscock back would be nice.

update-sensitive bullet seems to be working for me right now! (on blueski-2 i think)

nb all of this is super awesome, Keith, thank you. <3

46 logged in users active in the past five minutes

Sweet! Thanks Keith! Is there an easy way to do this on the new answers page of each board?

I miss RSS, I like to know I haven't missed anything when I haven't been around for a while.

The updated thing wasn't working on others because I forgot to update the stylesheets, but have done so with style and old.

Nick - it's easy to do, it's just a question of finding a neat place to put it... Don't want it to get too cluttered.

Matt - see above.

Ah, thanks.

Also, not sure if this was covered, but the ability for mods to de-index threads with a simple tickbox would be really appreciated.

I'll sort the rest of the stylesheets in a minute for the updated threads thing.

Don't want it to get too cluttered.

Totally agree!

I had to reload the stylesheet for the bullets to work, but it does now.

This is mighty confusing. I'm using Blueski-2.css and the bullets apparently (I never noticed before) are alternating squares: big/small/big/small/big/small.
At the moment, none are empty, but if they were, then empty would mean something, but big/small wouldn't mean anything?

Please to think up some other and immediately obvious way to show new messages on threads (if that's really necessary) (e.g. http://www2.dsre.net/images/blankpage_ico.gif)

I'll sort the rest of the stylesheets in a minute for the updated threads thing.

― Keith, Sunday, August 2, 2009 2:42 PM (28 minutes ago)

Very cool! I loaded old.css long enough to see how it worked, looking forward to seeing it on style3.

ok, so on this stylesheet, it's a black square (big or small) bullet for new messages and a grey (big or small) for no new messages/unread/other.

What browser are you using? They shouldn't be big/small, it's just darker (on mine anyway).

They should be darker when a thread you've read has new answers on it...

Rock - it's done on them all now.

or maybe some kind of "new message on thread since you last visited it" tooltip when hovering over that bullet kinda thing? Not everyone is going to read this thread or immediately guess/see the bullets suddenly mean something.

FFX 3.5.1

Hmm, was working on old.css and now it isn't.

Well, if you can think of something good then yes, but I think some kind of "New Messages" thing would be too intrusive, though I understand it's not immediately obvious what they mean.

Weird, I'm using FFX 3.5.1 too, though on a Mac. Don't get the big/small thing. Perhaps it's the Windows version.

Correction: Blueski-2.css bullets aren't alternating big/small, they're (probably?) totally random:

http://i25.tinypic.com/mskmxd.png

Or are some threads fuller than others, like a fuel gauge? :-)

Ed, it's probably just because I rebooted to fix all the other stylesheets, so the server's forgotten your position on some recent threads.

Yeah, that's weird, Stan I mean the only change to the stylesheet I've made is this:

.updated {
	color: #000;
}

And that style should only be used when the thread's got new messages, so a bit puzzled as to why anything else would have changed.

It may have been like this forever, I only just looked at the bullets since they suddenly mean something. (when they're black, but not when they're big or small)

Right - I mean it feels like a browser rendering thing... No anti-aliasing; that kind of thing. I'll temporarily take the change out and you can let me know if it made a difference... Give me a second.

OK, it should be as was now... Whatever that was.

yup, working again.

Hmmm, style3 still not working, Keith.

The stylesheet is updated... You may need to just shake your browser a bit - they do a good job of caching stylesheets. Try refreshing 'furiously' for a bit.

Nevermind about the Blueski-2.css big/small bullet thing: it's not random, there's a pattern: --.-.--.-.-- (etc) (still confusing though: this doesn't mean anything, but the color does)

Actually, now that you mention it, I've just noticed it on mine too :)

It isn't anything to do with the change; must just be Firefox's rendering. Maybe there's a way to force it, but I doubt it.

Ah! That got it. Quit/restarted Firefox. Thanks!

Let me try circles, Stan - that might be better.

Much better, thanks!

(I was looking at morse code to see if --.-. or .-.-- meant anything, just in case :-) )

Probably is, isn't it. It's all a bit annoying as they're bigger on FFox than they are on Safari, but not a lot I can do, I guess.

My only suggestion is to keep up the good work. I love ILX, because it only changes for the better. None of the "we're changing everything cuz we have to do something with all the designers we hired" that seems to infect other sites. All the gloss is subtle, and in the name of usability. I'm posting from Zing, so I guess my only suggestions would be to polish up Zing, and make Windows/iPhone versions. You guys rock!

Jay, you can kind of do this now, though it's certainly not obvious... If you use the text search, and enter something like:

radiohead AND displayName:"Ned Raggett"

It should work - remember to change to posts (if that's what you're looking for).

― Keith, Sunday, August 2, 2009 10:43 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Excellent, thanks, Keith!

Keith, what classes do I need to add support for to caek.css to make the updated threads list thing work?

print to cafepress button

haha!

hahahaha. i would like a coffee mug that says SUGGEST BAN in the interior once the liquid level gets too low. like, you're not allowed to have too little coffee.

i'm not really sure how this works though, like are you suggest banning the coffee or the mug or?